Le 31 oct 2004, J�r�me Marant a formul� : > > - on-line documentation is partially broken : sometimes it fails to > > access /usr/share/emacs/21.3.50/etc/DOC-21.3.50.7 (looks very like Kai > > had and following what was said on the list i did the make > > maintainer-clean) > > It is strange. The ".7" extension means that emacs has been many more > times than what does the package. > > Basically, I use make bootstrap and I shall get DOC-21.3.50.1 only. Then, > when I need to build a with another toolkit (like GTK), make distclean > removes any DOC* file.
While checking the emacs-version, i found that it was emacs 21.3.50.7 (corresponding to the faultly doc string) but with a 2 months old compile date... Quite not the fresh version i though i had compiled. BTW : how can i get that .7 subversion ? I have checked that Makefile provides a 21.3.50 version string... Le 31 oct 2004, Kai Grossjohann s'est exprim� ainsi : > It seems that these days, running the emacs-snapshot package goes > quite smoothly. > > I used to have the flavor troubles alluded to in the URL you cite, but > that has gone now. Now, packages seem to test for flavor != emacs > instead of flavor = emacs21. So packages get installed for > emacs-snapshot, too. > > I specifically do NOT need to explicitly set the flavor. > > One thing to make sure about is that you are actually running the > emacs-snapshot package, and not a self-compiled Emacs installed > elsewhere. Test with "which emacs". Well, listening that i *should not* get what i get, seeing a weird version/compilation date and that maybe i was using a wrong executable made me replay the whole installation process. I apt-get removed both emacs-snapshot packages, made a fresh cvs-checkout, recompiled the packages and reinstalled all. It seems that my emacs is now "GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (i386-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.4.13) of 2004-11-01 on obelix.seki.fr, modified by Debian." I have also remarked that tramp seems to work now (no more fail, no more doc problem) so does ecb. Things are far better now. So, i must admit that i must have used a wrong version for a while :( Many thanks all for your feedback. S�bastien Kirche
